Last week while I was in San Francisco I picked up the new Google Search desktop tool. I had the first
one but found it occasionally frustrating, and I didn't enjoy having it index my hard drive, which seemed to take forever.
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Last week while I was in San Francisco I picked up the new Google Search desktop tool. I had the first
one but found it occasionally frustrating, and I didn't enjoy having it index my hard drive, which seemed to take forever.
August 31, 2005 in Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)
So it's my first full day back from "paternity leave". I've been calling it "maternity leave", only to have Sarah correct my gender choice for the phrase. I only beg to differ because "paternity leave" sounds like someone forced me to take responsibility for a child I was denying was actually mine. But here, in front of all of you, I admit it. Sarah is my baby momma.
August 30, 2005 in Life | Permalink | Comments (0)
On Sunday, I started out my day in the Mission in CA and said to Sarah and a friend, "The NYT Magazine is the only thing worth reading in the Sunday paper!"
Ok, so I'm full of crap.
August 29, 2005 in Sunday's papers | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A while ago I was asked by my friend Jennifer to help her find a Bluetooth phone to use with her carrier. It wasn't impossible to do, but the information was spread out in different places. Knowing what phones I had available was only part of the puzzle, I then had to figure out such obscure things, such as, "Had Jennifer's carrier crippled her Bluetooth stack?" Using a combination of CNet and the carrier's website, I dug up her answers.
August 26, 2005 in Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)
This Poker Raid story mentions profits of five to ten thousand dollars per night. It's almost certainly a lie. Here's how you can tell.
August 25, 2005 in Poker raids | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
You know how oil is made, right? Old dinosaurs and plants decay for thousands of years and turn into that golden sludge we have become so addicted to. So then you know that "Are we running out of oil?" isn't really the question. Since the planet is finite, there isn't an infinite supply.
The question is posed by the NYT Magazine this past Sunday was "When will we run out of oil?" (Link: The Breaking Point - New York Times). The answer may be "soon".
August 23, 2005 in Sunday's papers | Permalink | Comments (0)
Holocaust historians often complain that as World War 2 fades from history, every new generation is less and less familiar with the atrocities of the Nazis. This is a valid concern, every new generation will find that the horrors of the Holocaust carry less weight because they are more distant in history.
Continue reading "Tearfully but Forcefully, Israel Removes Gaza Settlers - New York Times" »
August 18, 2005 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
August 16, 2005 in Life | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
You haven’t heard from me in a while. I’m finishing my paternity
leave on a three week cross country tour visiting the relatives who are
too sick to travel. I spent the first
week in my home town, St. Louis, because my mom has cancer. The whole
family has circled the wagons, as you might expect, and so I’m home
doing my part. Of course our family is highly competitive, and so
regardless of how sick anyone is, there’s a game ready to be
contested. Tonight it was Spinners, a version of dominoes with wild
cards.
August 13, 2005 in Life | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso
August 08, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)